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...Noorhaidi Hasan Duke University Press 2007 The Salafi Movement in Indonesia: Transnational Dynamics and Local Development Noorhaidi Hasan n the mid-1980s Indonesia began witnessing the expansion of the so-called Salafi Da‘wa movement, made evident...

... Imperatives: Local and Global in the Muslim Caribbean Aisha Khan Introduction experience, from collective memory, to political culture, It was Christmas holiday time in the south of Wni- to the rules of reciprocity. Given the “callaloo” (mixed, dad, 1988...

...Carl W. Ernst © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Local Cultural Nationalism as Anti- Fundamentalist Strategy in Pakistan’ Carl W. Ernst National identity would seem to be an unavoidable lamists...

...Sadik J. Al-Azm Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2000 The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Global, The Local, The Literary Sadik J. Al-Azm In the following pages, I do not intend to present a book in recent memory, no matter how...

... relations in rural areas altered both the status of different social groups and the contours of local administration in an Ottoman provincial setting. It aims to show that the new rural-urban dynamics not only shaped the political alliances and the workings of state, but also set stage for the Ottoman...

... . Armenian Migration to North America, State Power, and Local Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire David Gutman he tortured legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide, and the episodes of violence and massacre that preceded this tragic event...

... Empires unites Afghan, Indian, Ottoman, Islamic, modernist, and other strands of analysis. My comments are that of a student of Afghanistan, and I appreciate this opportunity to address the comparative imperial dimension of Afghanistan's constitutional history. I am interested in local perceptions...

... . Kocahanoğlu Osman Selim . Midhat Paşa’nın hatıraları: hayatım ibret olsun (The Memoirs of Midhat Pasha: Let My Life Be a Warning) . Istanbul : Temel , 1997 . Koksal Yonca . “ Imperial Center and Local Groups: Tanzimat Reforms in Edirne and Ankara .” New Perspectives on Turkey 27 ( 2002...

...Francesca Orsini; Sara Marzagora; Karima Laachir Abstract Against the nationalist production of monolingual literary histories, this introduction to the special section “Multilingual Locals” urges literary and intellectual historians to “place languages back into dialogue.” Colonialism did...

..., nevertheless allows Shariati to transcend postcolonial anxieties and nativist traps even as he calls on his fellow Iranian and Muslim intellectuals to attend to resources within the local culture and to delink from Eurocentric and colonially globalized knowledge regimes. In order to place his thought within...

...Theodore G. Shepherd; Adam H. Sobel Abstract Climate change is a global problem, yet it is experienced at the local scale, in ways that are both place-specific and specific to the accidents of weather history. This article takes the dichotomy between the global and the local as a starting point...

... policies, however, has not resulted in such integration. The nation and region have been reformulated around fragmented ideologies of religion and ethnicity, often conforming to their respective political boundaries or claiming newer boundaries. The local has stubbornly refused erasure by resisting secular...

... without any Muslim or Arab ancestry. Arab Muslim communities and identities in Brazil are formed by very complex articulations between transnational and local interpretations and practices of Islam and Arab identities, which emerge and gain reality within the cultural and sociological framework of each...

...Leigh Denault Alternately seen as a local-level court of arbitration, a union or committee, or village or municipal council, the concept of the South Asian panchayat was a sociopolitical and legal palimpsest. Retaining traces of meaning accrued from multiple incarnations, contestations...

... of Istanbul. The state also wanted to facilitate agriculture and commerce. Apart from these general concerns, many aspects of the Trabzon-Bayezid road project related to local needs and demands rather than the central government’s desire to modernize the country. These needs gave rise to both collaboration...

... a broad context in which subsistence crises of this kind could occur frequently. Loss of transcontinental trade and territories, the decline of local industries, worsening trade deficits, the devaluation and scarcity of currency, and chronic imperial and state-building warfare in an increasingly...

... raised a number of issues and concerns among intellectuals and social activists alike. This is particularly true with regard to women's NGOs. Some of the issues raised relate to the rationale behind the mushrooming of this phenomenon, that is, whether it is a conscious product of local or national need...

...Touraj Daryaee This essay discusses the formation of an economy in late antiquity with the coming of the Sassanian Empire in 224 CE. Local, imperial, regional, and international trade and the role of the state and traders and their relation with one another are previewed. Based on surviving...

... on and is reproduced through Istanbul's urban geography; places and landscapes that represent a multiethnic tolerant past come to serve as evidence for what the Ottoman legacy represents. Second, while discourses of Ottoman tolerance are grounded in a local past, they are informed by, and thus respond to, very...